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|lnetxt=ater atra -um, atrior -or -us, aterrimus -a -um ADJ :: black, dark; dark-colored (hair/skin); gloomy/murky; unlucky; sordid/squalid<br />ater ater atra -um, atrior -or -us, aterrimus -a -um ADJ :: deadly, terrible, grisly (esp. connected with underworld); poisonous; spiteful
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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>āter</b>: tra, trum, adj. cf. [[αἴθω]], to [[burn]]; Sanscr. idh; [[αἴθων]] [[αἰθήρ]], Αἴτνη, [[Aetna]], [[aether]], [[aestus]], [[aestas]] (pr. [[burnt]] [[black]], [[black]] as a [[coal]]; cf.:<br /><b>I</b> Tam excoctam reddam [[atque]] atram [[quam]] carbost, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63: [[hence]]), [[black]]; and specif., coalblack, lustreless-[[black]], [[sable]], [[dark]] (opp. [[albus]], lustreless-[[white]], and diff. from [[niger]], [[glossy]] [[black]], v. [[albus]] init.; [[class]]. and freq., [[but]] [[never]] in Vulg., [[which]] uses [[niger]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[album]] an atrum [[vinum]] potas? Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 17: atrior [[multo]] Quam Aegyptii, id. Poen. 5, 5, 11: [[alba]] et atra discernere non poterat, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114: nigra [[scuta]], [[tincta]] corpora; atras ad proelia noctes legunt, Tac. G. 43: Mos erat [[antiquus]] niveis atrisque capillis, etc., Ov. M. 15, 41; so id. ib. 15, 44; cf. [[albus]]: [[fauces]], Lucr. 6, 1147: [[dens]], Hor. Epod. 8, 3: [[nubes]], Lucr. 6, 180; Hor. C. 2, 16, 2: [[lumen]], [[with]] [[smoke]], Verg. A. 7, 457: [[agmen]], [[with]] [[dust]], id. ib. 12, 450 Serv.: [[axis]], [[with]] [[blood]], Sil. 2, 186: [[Eridanus]] [[ater]] stragibus, id. 6, 107: [[bilis]], Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 64, and Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11 (cf. the Gr. [[μελαγχολία]]): [[cruor]], Hor. Epod. 17, 31: [[tempestas]], Lucr. 6, 258 sq.; Verg. A. 5, 693: hiemps, id. ib. 7, 214: [[canis]], Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 25: [[corvus]] atro gutture, Cat. 108, 5: venena, Verg. G. 2, 130: Tartara, Lucr. 3, 966; so, [[Cocytus]], Hor. C. 2, 14, 17: [[mare]], [[dark]], [[stormy]], id. S. 2, 2, 16: [[fluctus]], Verg. A. 5, 2: [[mons]], v. 2. [[ater]].— The [[proverb]] [[albus]] an [[ater]], v. [[albus]].—Poet., = [[atratus]], clothed in [[black]]: lictores, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 6; cf. [[albus]], I. B. 2.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., [[black]], [[dark]], [[gloomy]], [[sad]], [[dismal]], [[unfortunate]], etc.: [[funus]], Lucr. 2, 580: [[formido]], id. 4 [173], and id. 6, 254; so, Timor, Verg. A. 9, 719: [[cupressus]], id. ib. 3, 64: [[dies]], id. ib. 6, 429; Prop. 3, 2, 4: [[mors]], Hor. C. 1, 28, 13: fila trium sororum, id. ib. 2, 3, 16: [[Esquiliae]] (as a burying-[[place]]), [[dismal]], id. S. 2, 6, 32: seu [[mors]] atris circumvolat [[alis]], id. ib. 2, 1, 58: [[cura]], id. C. 3, 1, 40; 3, 14, 13; 4, 11, 35: lites, id. A. P. 423: [[comes]], id. S. 2, 7, 115: [[serpens]], Verg. G. 1, 129; Ov. M. 3, 63 al.: [[genius]] .. vultu [[mutabilis]], [[albus]] et [[ater]], Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 189.—In Roman [[civil]] [[life]], [[dies]] atri are the days on [[which]] the [[state]] experienced [[some]] [[calamity]], [[unlucky]] days. (This [[designation]] is said to [[have]] arisen from the Roman [[custom]] of marking [[every]] [[unfortunate]] [[day]] in the calendar [[with]] [[coal]]); Varr. L. L. 6, § 29; Liv. 6, 1; Gell. 5, 17; Fest. s. v. nonarum, p. 179 Müll.; id. s. v. [[religiosus]], p. 278 Müll.; Ov. A. A. 1, 418; Macr. S. 1, 15 fin. and 16; Afran. ap. Non. p. 73, 33: si atro [[die]] faxit [[insciens]], [[probe]] [[factum]] esto, Liv. 22, 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rare and [[poet]]., of [[mind]] or [[feeling]], [[malevolent]], [[malicious]], [[virulent]] (cf. [[niger]], II. D., and the Gr. [[μέλας]], II. 4 Lidd. and Scott): [[versus]], Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 30: si [[quis]] atro dente me petiverit, id. Epod. 6, 15.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Also [[poet]]. of [[something]] [[difficult]] to be understood, [[dark]], [[obscure]] (so [[μέλας]], Anth. Pal. 11, 347): latebrae Lycophronis atri, Stat. p. 5, 3, 157.—Comp.<br /> v. [[supra]], I.—Sup. and adv. not used.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>ātĕr</b>,⁸ tra, trum, noir [sombre, qui manque d’éclat],<br /><b>1</b> [en parl. de nuage] Virg. En. 4, 248, etc. ; [de la nuit] En. 1, 89, etc. ; des torches fumantes] En. 9, 73 ; [de caverne] En. 1, 60 ; [de bois ombreux] En. 1, 165 ; [d’une tempête horrible] En. 5, 693 ; [de la mer orageuse] Hor. S. 2, 2, 16 ; O. 3, 27, 18 ; [du sang] Virg. En. 3, 28 ; des licteurs dans les funérailles] Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 6 &#124;&#124; [[alba]] et atra discernere Cic. Tusc. 5, 114, distinguer le blanc du noir<br /><b>2</b> [fig.] sombre, [[triste]], funeste, cruel [en parl. de la mort] : Hor. O. 1, 28, 13 ; [de l’épouvante] Virg. En. 12, 335 ; Lucr. 4, 173 ; [du souci] Hor. O. 3, 1, 40 ; des procès] Hor. P. 423 ; [de jours malheureux] [[Varro]] L. 6, 29 ; Gell. 5, 17, 1 ; Ov. F. 1, 58 ; [du jour de la mort] Virg. En. 6, 429 ; [de vers perfides] Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 30 &#124;&#124; atrior Pl. Pœn. 1290 ; Gell. 2, 26, 14 ; 2, 30, 11 &#124;&#124; superl. inusité.||[[alba]] et atra discernere Cic. Tusc. 5, 114, distinguer le blanc du noir<br /><b>2</b> [fig.] sombre, [[triste]], funeste, cruel [en parl. de la mort] : Hor. O. 1, 28, 13 ; [de l’épouvante] Virg. En. 12, 335 ; Lucr. 4, 173 ; [du souci] Hor. O. 3, 1, 40 ; des procès] Hor. P. 423 ; [de jours malheureux] [[Varro]] L. 6, 29 ; Gell. 5, 17, 1 ; Ov. F. 1, 58 ; [du jour de la mort] Virg. En. 6, 429 ; [de vers perfides] Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 30||atrior Pl. Pœn. 1290 ; Gell. 2, 26, 14 ; 2, 30, 11||superl. inusité.
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{{Georges
|georg=(1) āter<sup>1</sup>, ātra, ātrum, Adi. m. Compar. (= umbr. atru, adro), [[wie]] [[unser]] [[dunkel]], um das Lichtverhältnis anzudeuten (Ggstz. [[lucidus]]), od. die [[Farbe]] = [[glanzlos]] [[schwarz]], [[farblos]] (Ggstz. [[albus]], [[glanzlos]] [[weiß]], versch. [[von]] [[niger]], [[glänzend]] [[schwarz]], Ggstz. [[candidus]], [[glänzend]] [[weiß]]), I) eig.: 1) adi.: atrum an [[album]] [[vinum]] potas? dunkelroten [[oder]] [[weißen]], Plaut.: reddam [[tam]] atram [[quam]] [[carbo]] est, Ter.: [[filius]], [[ein]] [[Mohr]], Ov.; vgl. atrior [[multo]] ut siet [[quam]] Aegyptii ([[Aegyptini]]), schwärzer [[als]] die Mohren, Plaut.: atrae gentes et [[quodammodo]] [[Aethiopes]], [[Mela]]: caprae, [[Cato]] fr.: intibi, Pompon. com. fr.: lapilli (Stimmsteinchen), Ggstz. nivei, Ov.: [[panis]], Ter. Eun. 939: [[color]], Ov.: [[nemus]], speluncae, [[dunkel]], Verg.: [[odor]], schwarzer [[Qualm]], Verg.: [[nubes]], Plin. ep.: [[mare]], [[schwarz]] (Ggstz. [[glaucus]] et [[caeruleus]], Gell.), [[dunkel]], aufgewühlt, [[stürmisch]], Hor.: atrae et profundae [[tenebrae]], Ael. Tuber. fr.: poet. = [[atratus]], [[schwarz]] gekleidet ([[als]] [[Zeichen]] der [[Trauer]]), lictores, Hor. ep. 1, 7, 6. – Sprichw., s. [[albus]] no. I, 1. – 2) subst.: [[alba]] discernere et atra [[non]] posse, Cic. Tusc. 5, 114: [[candida]] de nigris et de candentibus atra facere, Ov. [[met]]. 11, 314 sq. (sprichw.). – II) übtr.: A) [[als]] [[Zeichen]] der [[Trauer]] [[von]] allem Betrübenden, Unglücklichen, Unheilbringenden, [[schwarz]], [[finster]], [[traurig]], [[unglücklich]], unheilvoll, [[Unheil]] bringend od. -[[drohend]], [[funus]], Lucr.: [[dies]], Afran. fr. u. Verg.: [[cupressus]], Verg.: [[mors]], Hor.: [[timor]], [[tigris]], Verg.: [[vipera]], Hor.: [[acies]], Verg.: [[agmen]], Verg.: lites, leidige, [[schnöde]] [[Händel]], Hor. – Im röm. [[Staatsleben]] sind [[dies]] atri ([[Unheil]] bringende) die Tage, an denen dem Staate [[ein]] [[Unglück]] begegnet, s. [[alte]] [[Formel]] [[bei]] Liv. 22, 10, 6; vgl. Fab. Max. fr. 4 ([[bei]] Macr. [[sat]]. 1, 16, 25). Varr. LL. 6, 29. Gell. 5, 17 in. Macr. [[sat]]. 1, 15, 22; 1, 16, 21 sqq. – B) [[giftig]], [[schwarz]] = [[böse]], [[mens]], Sil. 2, 355: Aemilia cute fusca,... [[sed]] [[non]] atra [[animo]], [[Auson]]. parent. (XV) 7, 3 u. 5. p. 44 Schenkl. – [[bes]]. = [[giftig]], [[hämisch]], atro dente petere alqm, Hor. epod. 6, 51: versibus atris oblinere alqm, Hor. ep. 1, 19, 30. – C) [[schwer]] zu [[verstehen]], [[dunkel]], [[Lycophron]], Stat. silv. 5, 3, 157 zw. (Bährens arti). – / Compar. [[bei]] Plaut. Poen. 1290. Gell. 2, 26, 14; 2, 30, 11. Lact. 5, 3, 23.
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{{LaZh
|lnztxt=ater, tra, trum. ''adj''. ''c''. :: 黑。暗者。兇惡。Atra bilis 黄痰。憂悶。Albus an ater sis nescio 不知爾何如。Atra dies 凶日。Atrum vinum 混酒。Atrum nemus 密林。— panis 大麥麵頭。— odor 臭。
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